Emma Feltes (she/her) is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology.

Feltes is a legal, political, and public anthropologist. Her work examines the structure and operation of Canadian colonialism, with a focus on Constitutional law, international law and transnational decolonization, environmental crisis, and climate justice.

A settler scholar, writer, and anticolonial activist, she draws on more than a decade working in alliance with Secwépemc and Tŝilhqot’in Peoples in interior British Columbia. Her current book project examines the “Constitution Express,” a 1980s Indigenous movement that opposed the patriation of Canada’s Constitution from the UK without Indigenous consent and without Indigenous jurisdiction at the fore.

Her new research looks at state and Indigenous jurisdiction in times of emergency, focusing on decolonial responses to the climate crisis that spring from Indigenous legal orders. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Cornell.

Her scholarship has been published in Anthropologica, BC Studies, and the Canadian Journal for Law and Society. Meanwhile, her public writing appears in The Conversation, The Breach, and the Globe and Mail. She has co-written numerous submissions to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in support of Indigenous land defenders.

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Emma Feltes (she/her) is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology.

Feltes is a legal, political, and public anthropologist. Her work examines the structure and operation of Canadian colonialism, with a focus on Constitutional law, international law and transnational decolonization, environmental crisis, and climate justice.

A settler scholar, writer, and anticolonial activist, she draws on more than a decade working in alliance with Secwépemc and Tŝilhqot’in Peoples in interior British Columbia. Her current book project examines the “Constitution Express,” a 1980s Indigenous movement that opposed the patriation of Canada’s Constitution from the UK without Indigenous consent and without Indigenous jurisdiction at the fore.

Her new research looks at state and Indigenous jurisdiction in times of emergency, focusing on decolonial responses to the climate crisis that spring from Indigenous legal orders. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Cornell.

Her scholarship has been published in Anthropologica, BC Studies, and the Canadian Journal for Law and Society. Meanwhile, her public writing appears in The Conversation, The Breach, and the Globe and Mail. She has co-written numerous submissions to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in support of Indigenous land defenders.

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